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Trend underemployment at 8.5%, below 2017 peak

The monthly trend unemployment rate remained steady at 5.5 per cent in May 2018, according to latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
Over the year to May, the unemployment rate declined 0.2 per cent, while the underemployment rate also fell by 0.2 per cent over the year to 8.5 per cent. The underemployment rate, which is the proportion of people who are working but would like to work more hours, remains below the peak of 8.7 per cent seen in 2017.
"The latest data tells us that over the past year both the trend unemployment rate and underemployment rate declined by 0.2 per cent, resulting ... (full story)

This Data make me confuse... On The ABS Report say if Unemployment Rate still 5,5%... But why on Forex Factory writed and published Unemployment Rate is 5,4%... Which Data is the right? Forex Factory Data's or ABS Data's? {image}

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one is trend data, other is seasonally adjusted (both come from the ABS data). Sceptics would say neither is right as they are based on sampling only.

I'm a sceptic and know how this has been randomly sampled despite having access to cross data .

What is fact is that Australia suffers from high personal debt in fact the highest in the world and the asset they have borrowed against is a house which are now falling in value.
Many have been living off the equity of their house value . That is now coming to a close as new lending regulations take hold.

On top of that you have low wage growth so doesnt matter how many are employed the wages could be very low and some have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet.